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Oleksandra Matviichuk
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head of the Center for Civil Liberties (Ukraine)/ Nobel Peace Prize 2022/ Democracy Defender Award of OSCE 2016
We had a night of Russian culture today. You ask, what is a night of Russian culture? It's when Russian missiles and drones fly to kill you and your family. Russian culture is a culture of a hierarchy of violence, where a slave who gets a weapon becomes a despot.
November 29, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Once again, I am convinced that women are a powerful force. A meeting of the global women's movement took place in Marseille. They gave as a present an olive tree. Today I am taking it to Kyiv. I am a little bit worried how we will go through all the transfers and trains with it.
November 28, 2025 at 10:53 AM
The event at the Berlin theater began with a choir performance. I was asked what has helped me do my work all these years. I said empathy for people. Interestingly, I had considered empathy to be my vulnerability, but it turned out to be my strength.
November 28, 2025 at 8:52 AM
I have a question. First of all, to the Americans. For the president of what country do you think American representative Witkoff is working? For Trump? Or for Putin?
November 26, 2025 at 12:51 PM
On Holodomor Remembrance Day, I will say only one thing. Ukrainians with weapons in 2025 are not the same Ukrainians without weapons who died of artificial famine in 1932-33. We have learned our history lessons well.
November 22, 2025 at 12:19 PM
I had the opportunity to talk to journalists from various media outlets in Manila. They were interested in everything - peace talks, the Russians' use of drones to hunt civilians, what we are doing to return children abducted by Russia, and how Ukrainians organized to resist to RU aggression.
November 18, 2025 at 5:42 AM
One of Hollywood's bravest hearts💙💛 If the brilliant report of the UN's Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine failed to draw attention to the cynical drone safaris on civilians that the Russians love to do, then maybe Angelina Jolie's visit to Kherson will help.
November 8, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Those minutes until you find your child after the kindergarten is shelled. If you need to explain what hell is, this is it.

The world's biggest child kidnapper, Putin, hit a kindergarten in Kharkiv. There are injured children. There is a fire in the kindergarten.
October 22, 2025 at 12:45 PM
I always come to Prague with joy. This time it was literally half a day. At the Forum, which Václav Havel founded, I talked about our PeopleFirst campaign. We are returning the human dimension to political processes.
October 14, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Russia once again assured the UN that it wants peace, but bombed peaceful cities in Ukraine for 12 hours straight. Four people died in Kyiv, including a nurse and a patient at the cardiology institute. A whole street was destroyed in Petropavlivskyi Borshchagovka.
September 28, 2025 at 12:08 PM
We have a very strange life. And a very fragile one. No one knows when it will end. That's why we value life so much - our families, our friends, our time together. Because as long as we hold back Russian aggression, we have a chance to survive. If Russia occupies us, it will kill us all.
September 7, 2025 at 7:08 PM
My cat Sourcream hasn't come out of hiding since this morning. She always does this after intense shelling. Today was a record. Russia launched more than a thousand drones against us. I heard missiles flying over my house. Quite a night, to be honest.
September 7, 2025 at 8:12 AM
In Kyiv, people bring flowers to a makeshift memorial in memory of the children whose lives were taken by Russia today.

Russian missiles killed 18 people, including 4 children.

📷 State Emergency Service
August 28, 2025 at 6:10 PM
A wonderful illustration of how Russia wants peace. Another massive attack on Kyiv. Children among the dead
August 28, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Nobel laureates, human rights defenders, journalists, and families of those freed from Russian captivity have addressed an open letter to the President of the United States ahead of his meeting with Putin.

Read the appeal people1st.online/open-letter-...

#People1st #BringPeopleHomeFirst
August 14, 2025 at 6:48 PM
People in the Kyiv subway are hiding from explosions.
Photo Yan Dobronosov
July 3, 2025 at 10:46 PM
We've been hearing explosions in Kyiv for several hours now. It hasn't scared me for a long time. It's just that the fatigue from constant lack of sleep is accumulating. And every time you find out who died after another Russian shelling of peaceful cities. War is a lottery.
July 3, 2025 at 10:25 PM
After another Russian attack on civilians, people in Kyiv are starting their morning in this way.
June 23, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Reposted by Oleksandra Matviichuk
#HRC59 Ukraine 🇺🇦

43,610 civilians killed or injured📍
Evidence of executions, torture, deaths in custody 🧠
Forensic teams can't keep up with scale of #warcrimes 🔬
Survivors face trauma without enough support, incl children 🧒

👉 UN calls for support & accountability

🔗 docs.un.org/en/A/HRC/59/...
June 18, 2025 at 8:39 AM
If world leaders do not have the personal power to stop Putin, they should at least not flatter and encourage him.

His son is under the rubble. The rescue operation is ongoing. We pray.
June 17, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Putin's footprint in history. When a person is unable to create something, he destroys. This is my native Kyiv in the massive Russian shelling.
June 17, 2025 at 5:06 AM
President Trump continues to compliment Putin. Putin continues to destroy and kill people. The only language Putin understands is strength. It's time to change policies that aren't working.

This is my native Kyiv after the massive shelling of residential areas.
June 17, 2025 at 4:54 AM
I am very grateful to His Majesty King Charles III for the private audience at Buckingham Palace and the opportunity to talk about the human dimension of this war.
June 14, 2025 at 1:19 PM
This is what Putin thinks about a peace agreement. Civilian facilities are burning. It's time to tighten sanctions because there will be no peace without force against Putin.
June 10, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Our morning after another Russian attack on civilian objects and civilians. My colleagues wrote in the chat, "We have survived, so see you in the office." People are going to work. Russia, you will never break us.
June 10, 2025 at 1:53 PM